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Second International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments
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Support for Data-Intensive, Variable-Granularity Grid Applications via Distributed File System Virtualization - A Case Study of Light Scattering Spectroscopy
Jithendar Paladugula, University of Florida
Ming Zhao, University of Florida
Renato J. Figueiredo, University of Florida
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A key challenge faced by large-scale, distributed applications in Grid environments is efficient, seamless data management. In particular, for applications that can benefit from access to data at variable granularities, data management can pose additional programming burdens to an application developer. This paper presents a case for the use of virtualized distributed file systems as a basis for data management for data-intensive, variable-granularity applications. The approach leverages on-demand transfer mechanisms of existing, de-facto network file system clients and servers that support transfers of partial data sets in an application-transparent fashion, and complement them with user-level performance and functionality enhancements such as caching and encrypted communication channels. The paper uses a nascent application from the medical imaging field (Light Scattering Spectroscopy - LSS) as a motivation for the approach, and as a basis for evaluating its performance. Results from performance experiments that consider the 16-processor parallel execution of LSS analysis and database generation programs show that, in the presence of data locality, a virtualized wide-area distributed file system setup and configured by Grid middleware can achieve performance levels close (13% overhead or less) to that of a local disk, and superior (up to 680% speedup) to non-virtualized distributed file systems.
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Jithendar Paladugula, Ming Zhao, Renato J. Figueiredo,
"Support for Data-Intensive, Variable-Granularity Grid Applications via Distributed File System Virtualization - A Case Study of Light Scattering Spectroscopy,"
clade,
p. 12,
Second International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments,
2004
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